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Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, pastor
Iof the world's largest black
Baptist Church and a professor of
education at Rutgers University,
will be the keynote speaker at the
second annual Black-Tie Dinrier
sponsored by the A&T University
Foundation November 15.
The dinner will serve as a
salute to the Foundation's
individual and corporate
supporters. Also to be honored
are the three living presidents,
including Proctor, a past
president; Dr. -Warmoth T.
Gibbs, president emeritus; Dr.^
Lewis C. Dowdy, the current
chancellor.
Other honorees will be
members of the Chancellor's
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the Chancellor's Scholars,
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more than 500 persons are
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Hilton Inn.,
Proctor, one of the nation's
outstanding young
administrators, served . as
president of A&T from 1960 until
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director of the Peace Corps in
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president of Virginia Union
University and as administrative
officer at the University of
Wisconsin. He is pastor of
Abyssinian Baptist Church in
Harlem.
Gibbs served as president of
A&T from 1956 until 1960, and
gained accreditation for A&T by
the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools.
Dowdy became president of
A&T in 1964, and has been
responsible for dramatic changes
in curriculum, facujty
develop rr^e n t, capital
improvements and the achieving
of national accreditation by four
of the university's academic
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During Dowdy'.^
administration, the university
gained more than $19 million in
capital improvements and the
number of doctorates on the staff
increased from 26 to 44 percent.
Reservations for the dinner
may be secured from the Office
of Development and University
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struggle does not exist in a
. vacuum," said Julian Bond about
the black man's struggle in a
speech at UNC-G Founder's Day,
which was aired Tuesday,
October 15 at 10:00 p.m. on the
UNC-TV Network.
Reviewing the political
situationin Europe, Africa and
America, he noted that in the last
five years, the government's
concern in America has changed
from benign concern to
malignant neglect.
"The rhetoric on sharing
wealth became a scandelous
exercise," he added about social
reform programs.
critical ot the Nixon administration,
Bond said the 1972
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Not often can you find a native
Black African whose ancestors
came from the United States.
That is, of course, unless he is
from the west African nation of
Liberia. And Thursday, October
17, the son of the president of
I aberia will be visiting the city as
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personal guesi 01 lvir. ana lvirs.
(lerald O. Scott.
Aldofus B. Tolbert,
ambassador-at-large of the
African nation founded by freed
U.S. slaves, will attend the Ebony
Fashion Fair on Friday; visit the
Blue Ridge mountains on
Saturday and tour the city. But,
mostly, he and Scott will be
discussing the possibilities of
establishing a leather
manufacturing business in
Liberia.
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4'I invited him down to see
Winston-Salem," Scott said in a
recent interview. "I want him to
take a look at my business and to
show him what black ^VinstonSalem
looks like." Scott said he
met the ambassador in New York
about a week ago and found that
both shared the same attitude on
brotherhood:
"I consider myself a citizen of
the world and he feels the same
way. The world is our home and
a^men are our brothers."
Scott owns a leather business
here and said he had discussed
his business with the ambassador
at a party in New York. "We
discussed the possibilities of
starting a leather tannery in
Iiberia," commented Scott. "We
are also exploring the
possibilities of other raw
material production."
Scott said that the ambassador
believes there is a trend among
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the Nixon administration shifted
responsibility for social
programs from the federal
government, where the funds
are, to _ the state and?local governments,
where all types of
resources are lacking, he said.
Speaking at the 82nd annual
Founder's Day Convocation on
October 5 at the Cone Ballroom of
the Elliott University Center pn
the UNC-G campus, Bond saidXjf
himself, "I am by profession a
politician. It is not a profession
held in high esteem, but I am
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black Americans that tends to
keep them away from back
Africa. 44A lot of Afro-American
people have gotten to the place
where they don't want to go to
black Africa. They don't think the
reception will be good."
However, Scott added, /'The
ambassador is working on
showing blacks that they are
welcome in Liberia. , "The
ambassador wants to get more
people to travel to Monrovia
icapitol of Liberia)."
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. Bond, who is a descendent of a
freed slave, has served in the
Georgia legislature since
January 9,1967. He was elected to
office in 1965 but denied his
position by the Georgia House of
Representatives because they
against the Vietnam War. A
favorable Supreme Court ruling
in December 1966 admitted him
to the legislature.
The 30-minute speech was
shown in color on all eight
University Television Network
channels. Information on UHF
reception is available upon
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for some neighboring African
countries, will arrive in the city
at approximately 6:30 p.m. and
will be escorted on a tour of
Whitaker Park by city officials^
The ambassador's limousine will
be furnished by R.J. Reynolds
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lODaccn company.
Liberia, which means
Freedom, was one of the first
black African nations to acquire
independence. It is on the west
coast of Africa and has an
estimated population of more
than a million people.
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